Time Enough For Love

Last week I wrote about Viva Hinds by Hinds, an album from 2024 that I got into at the start of this year following a tip off from a friend, JC (of The Vinyl Villain fame). This is the second album from 2024 that has sound tracked early 2025, another tip off, this time from Khayem at Dubhed. I've been a big fan of Seahawks for several years but their latest album had passed me by on release in early December. I bought it a month later, after hearing the title track Time Enough For Love. 

In 2022 Seahawks (Pete Fowler and John Tye) arrived in L.A. to record with the intention of making 'an exploration of visionary California'. Both were struck down by illness, Fowler being hospitalised and bedridden. The album they made when they were better has the feel of a fever dream, a sense of drift and weightlessness that make the ten tracks feel very fluid- this liquid, post- sickness psychedelic ambience persists across the whole record, organs, synths and Fender Rhodes shimmering and bubbling. Everything feels like its just out of touch and slightly out of focus. The track above opens the album, washes of synth, the pitter patter of drums, a warm bass padding away and piano keys dappled on top. 

A lot has happened in Los Angeles since Seahawks made this album. Some friends of this blog have been affected by the fires there this month. Today, after natural disaster, they wake up to day one of the Trump presidency part two. Good luck to all of you out there.